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bush and now by barack obama? soon after he succeeded bush, president obama announced he would not permit torture and would close down the detention camp at guantanamo bay. he also said this -- >> our actions in defense of liberty will be just as our cause. and that we the people will uphold our fundamental values as vigilantly as we protect our security. once again america's moral example must be the bedrock and the beacon of our global leadership. >> four years later, guantanamo not only remains open, but a few days ago, the state department announced it was eliminating the office assigned to close the prison and move its detainees. meanwhile, president obama has stepped up the use of unmanned drones against suspected terrorists abroad. those drone attacks have killed a growing number of civilians and have prompted the united nations to launch an investigation into their legality and the deadly toll on innocent people. >> the central objective of the investigation i'm formally launching this morning is to look a
bush and now by barack obama? soon after he succeeded bush, president obama announced he would not permit torture and would close down the detention camp at guantanamo bay. he also said this -- >> our actions in defense of liberty will be just as our cause. and that we the people will uphold our fundamental values as vigilantly as we protect our security. once again america's moral example must be the bedrock and the beacon of our global leadership. >> four years later, guantanamo...
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the election of barack obama. and i discovered to my surprise that frederick douglass was buried there. and so i said, "take me to frederick douglass." and so i went, with one other person and i discovered the tomb in the condition in which it's described in the poem. >> what did you know about frederick douglass that warranted you to go there in the first place? >> frederick douglass was for me the quintessential amerin, maybe the greatest american. he was both liberated and liberator. he liberated himself. he went on to liberate others. >> slaves who were still in bondage? >> exactly. and wrote some of the greatest autobiographies. >> oh, amazing. >> that this country has ever seen. and so for me this was a matter of pilgrimage, a matter of some urgency. he was a dreamer indeed. and realized his dream. and what is more classically american than that? >> you called him somewhere, "the most complete person of the 19th century, the most complete american of the 19th century." yes. here we have a human condition, sl
the election of barack obama. and i discovered to my surprise that frederick douglass was buried there. and so i said, "take me to frederick douglass." and so i went, with one other person and i discovered the tomb in the condition in which it's described in the poem. >> what did you know about frederick douglass that warranted you to go there in the first place? >> frederick douglass was for me the quintessential amerin, maybe the greatest american. he was both liberated...
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so obama's right to say he doesn't negotiate. i'd like to know exactly what he will do if it turns out that there is not a quorum of sane people in the republican party. >> if you were secretary of the treasury, what would you recommend he do? >> i'm for whatever gimmick works. so the most dignified is to say, "look, this is ridiculous. you are giving the president -- effectively congress is giving the president inconsistent instructions. it's passed bills mandating spending. it's passed bills that give us inadequate revenue to cover that spending which requires that we borrow. and then you're saying, 'i can't borrow.' well, you know. and my reading of the constitution is i have to obey the due legislative process and go ahead and do this borrowing to meet the bills that we've already incurred, as the president said." that's sort of what people are calling the fourteenth amendment solution, that basically it's unconstitutional to give into this debt limit thing. i guess that's your best solution. they don't think that that's work
so obama's right to say he doesn't negotiate. i'd like to know exactly what he will do if it turns out that there is not a quorum of sane people in the republican party. >> if you were secretary of the treasury, what would you recommend he do? >> i'm for whatever gimmick works. so the most dignified is to say, "look, this is ridiculous. you are giving the president -- effectively congress is giving the president inconsistent instructions. it's passed bills mandating spending....
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obama has -- >> in the senate, right? >> in e senate. obama stayed off to the side, as they requested, because it's very hard for marco rubio to support anything the president's campaigning for. so his absence is what they needed to move this along. >> but we shouldn't just focus on the members themselves. there are, in the house, at least a few people who'd like to work to solve some of these problems and boehner among them, i think. and -- >> you really believe that? >> -- some others well, i think, you know, he's sees himself as the speaker of the house. and some of it is political as well. he's being pushed by other forces. but it's really important that we focus as much on the outside forces as the inside ones. >> such as? >> well, when the fiscal cliff debate came up and we get this bill coming over with 89 votes in the senate, and you had around that time, before those negotiations, boehner trying to get a little traction, knowing there would be a tax increase. coming up with his very poorly named plan b, you know? i think maybe s
obama has -- >> in the senate, right? >> in e senate. obama stayed off to the side, as they requested, because it's very hard for marco rubio to support anything the president's campaigning for. so his absence is what they needed to move this along. >> but we shouldn't just focus on the members themselves. there are, in the house, at least a few people who'd like to work to solve some of these problems and boehner among them, i think. and -- >> you really believe that?...
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. >> scrap nafta, senator obama, or fix it? >> i would immediately call the president of mexico, the president of canada to try to amend nafta because i think that we can get labor agreements in that agreement right now, and it should reflect the basic principle that our trade agreements should not just be good for wall street, it should also be good for main street. and the problem that we've had is that we've had corporate lobbyists oftentimes involved in negotiating these trade agreements, but the afl-cio hasn't been involved. ordinary working people have not been involved. and we've got to make sure that our agreements are good for everybody because globalization right now is creating winners and losers. but the problem is, it's the same winners and the same losers each and every time. >> what do you suppose is the influence on president obama that caused him to reverse course on nafta and not fulfill what was a campaign pledge? >> well, i think it's the nature of politics in the united states. i mean, it's not a secret. yo
. >> scrap nafta, senator obama, or fix it? >> i would immediately call the president of mexico, the president of canada to try to amend nafta because i think that we can get labor agreements in that agreement right now, and it should reflect the basic principle that our trade agreements should not just be good for wall street, it should also be good for main street. and the problem that we've had is that we've had corporate lobbyists oftentimes involved in negotiating these trade...
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to do the right thing? >> obama to me is symptomatic to me of the liberal center. but the issue is much greater than him. i mean, the issue is in a system that is entirely broken. it's broken. elections are bought by big money. the political process is not in the hands of the people. it's in the hands of very few people. and it seems to me we have to ask ourselves what kind of formative culture needs to be put in place in which education becomes central to politics, in which politics can be used to help people to be able to see things differently, to get beyond this system that is so closed, so powerfully normalized. i mean, the right since the 1970s has created a massive cultural apparatus, a slew of anti-public intellectuals. they've invaded the universities with think tanks. they have foundations. they have all kinds of money. and you know, it's interesting, the war they wage is a war on the mind. the war on what it means to be able to dissent, the war on the possibility of alternative visions. and the l
to do the right thing? >> obama to me is symptomatic to me of the liberal center. but the issue is much greater than him. i mean, the issue is in a system that is entirely broken. it's broken. elections are bought by big money. the political process is not in the hands of the people. it's in the hands of very few people. and it seems to me we have to ask ourselves what kind of formative culture needs to be put in place in which education becomes central to politics, in which politics can...
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. >> if workers at the bottom get the increase in the minimum wage that president obama proposed in his state of the union message, they will still be faring less well than their counterparts did 50 years ago. >> that's right. >> what does that say to you? >> the peak for the minimum wage in terms of its real purchasing power was 1968. it's been basically declining with a couple of ups and downs ever since. so that if you adjust for the current price, the minimum wage was about $10.50 roughly, back in 1968 in terms of what it could buy. and it's $7.25 today in terms of what it can buy. so you've taken the folks at the bottom, the people who work hard, full-time jobs, and you've made their economic condition worse over a 50-year period, while wealth has accumulated at the top. what kind of a society does this? and then the arguments have come out, which are in my profession a major staple for many careers, are arguments that, "gee, if you raise the minimum wage, a few people who might've otherwise gotten a job won't get it because the employer doesn't want to pay the higher wage." well,
. >> if workers at the bottom get the increase in the minimum wage that president obama proposed in his state of the union message, they will still be faring less well than their counterparts did 50 years ago. >> that's right. >> what does that say to you? >> the peak for the minimum wage in terms of its real purchasing power was 1968. it's been basically declining with a couple of ups and downs ever since. so that if you adjust for the current price, the minimum wage...
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obama is a community organizer, right. he should understand better than anyone that he needs people out there protesting not only the protesting against wall street and the right, but protesting some of the moderate democrats that are also obstacles to change. and i would like to see him encourage activists to be in the streets and protesting. and he did that a little bit a few months ago when he encouraged students on college campuses to get involved in the divestment movement over fossil fuels because he remembers when he was at occidental college -- >> your college. >> his first political act was a speech he gave against apartheid and encouraging my college, occidental college, to divest itself from stocks doing business in south africa. >> 1981. >> -- unfortunately my college didn't listen to barack obama -- >> -- and many of them -- most of them are not listening to bill mckibben and the divestment movement on fossil fuels. >> but many colleges did divest from companies doing business in south africa eventually. and t
obama is a community organizer, right. he should understand better than anyone that he needs people out there protesting not only the protesting against wall street and the right, but protesting some of the moderate democrats that are also obstacles to change. and i would like to see him encourage activists to be in the streets and protesting. and he did that a little bit a few months ago when he encouraged students on college campuses to get involved in the divestment movement over fossil...
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so, you know, for people like myself and many people around the world, when president obama was running for election, there were three phrases that resonated with us which he used multiple times in all his regular stump speeches, right? "yes, we can," "the fierce urgency of now," which is a phrase from martin luther king, and "a planet in peril." >> in peril. >> yeah. we understood a planet in peril was our understanding that climate change was actually threatening this life on this planet as we know it. now, if you take something like hurricane sandy, right? hurricane sandy would've happened. hurricanes happen. but you have to look at the intensity, the height of the waves and so on, which is compounded by the impacts of climate change, with regard to already the sea level rise that we've seen, a warming ocean and so on. so we must be very clear. we are playing political poker and commercial poker with the future of the planet, and when you say, "future of the planet," we're talking about the future of children. you know, the one thing i jokingly say, you know, sometimes people say, sa
so, you know, for people like myself and many people around the world, when president obama was running for election, there were three phrases that resonated with us which he used multiple times in all his regular stump speeches, right? "yes, we can," "the fierce urgency of now," which is a phrase from martin luther king, and "a planet in peril." >> in peril. >> yeah. we understood a planet in peril was our understanding that climate change was actually...
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. >> bill moyers: is that right? >> marshall ganz: well, "si se puede" came in arizona, 1972 arizona had a governor jack williams that passed a law that denied farm workers the right to organize, boycott. i mean, it was a terrible law. and so we had to figure out were we going to challenge it or not? so we all went to arizona to challenge it. we got there. and went out talking to people. and dolores huerta actually came back. we were meeting in a hotel/motel room. she said, "i've been talking to all these everywhere. and everywhere i go, people say, 'no se puede,' 'no se puede.'" she goes, "ah, you can't do it. you can't do it, you know? it's just too, you know? and we got to, we got to answer that. we got to say, 'si se puede.'" and so that became the slogan in that campaign was "si se puede." yes, it can be done. and that then became a farm worker movement slogan. "si se puede." so in new hampshire, when obama lost that night, and there was a lot of that talk going on around. >> barack obama: generations of america
. >> bill moyers: is that right? >> marshall ganz: well, "si se puede" came in arizona, 1972 arizona had a governor jack williams that passed a law that denied farm workers the right to organize, boycott. i mean, it was a terrible law. and so we had to figure out were we going to challenge it or not? so we all went to arizona to challenge it. we got there. and went out talking to people. and dolores huerta actually came back. we were meeting in a hotel/motel room. she...
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right now she teaches communications law at the benjamin cardozo school of law here in new york city and is a fellow at the roosevelt institute. susan crawford, welcome. >> thank you so much. >> "captive audience?" who's the captive? >> us, all of us. what's happened is that these enormous telecommunications companies, comcast and time warner on the wired side, verizon and at&t on the wireless side, have divided up markets, put themselves in the position where they're subject to no competition and no oversight from any regulatory authority. and they're charging us a lot for internet access and giving us second class access. this is a lot like the electrification story from the beginning of the 20th century. initially electricity was viewed as a luxury. so when f.d.r. came in, 90% of farms didn't have electricity in america at the same time that kids in new york city were playing with electric toys. and f.d.r. understood how important it was for people all over america to have the dignity and self-respect and sort of cultural and social and economic connection of an electrical outlet
right now she teaches communications law at the benjamin cardozo school of law here in new york city and is a fellow at the roosevelt institute. susan crawford, welcome. >> thank you so much. >> "captive audience?" who's the captive? >> us, all of us. what's happened is that these enormous telecommunications companies, comcast and time warner on the wired side, verizon and at&t on the wireless side, have divided up markets, put themselves in the position where...